Beehive Archive
Monday 3:30 p.m., Tuesday 7:40 and 8:40 a.m., Wednesday 9:55 a.m. and 7:55 p.m.
Beehive Archive features engaging stories that illuminate Utah's rich past and explore the diverse stories—religious, ethnic, regional, social, and cultural—that make up our state’s history. The new Beehive Archive episodes are part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water, presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. Tune in for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history. The Beehive Archive is a project of Utah Humanities, produced in partnership with Utah Public Radio and KCPW Radio with funding from the Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation. Find sources and past episodes at Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive.
Latest Episodes
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The town of Green River, Utah, is known for its melons. But feeding a thirsty crop takes water, and getting water from the river to the fields takes… -
Water, and how to control it, is an age-old consideration for the people of Utah. Over a thousand years ago, Utah’s earliest agriculturalists were the… -
In 1893, the LDS Church built the Great Saltair pleasure resort on the shores of Great Salt Lake. This was the start of a long, fraught, and constant… -
Maps shape how we see our world. Perhaps no one knew this as well as John Wesley Powell, a late-19th Century scientist who was one of the first to survey… -
In 1933, a Tooele mining company called the Bullion Coalition gave away 700 bushels of their famous apples to low income families. But the story of how a… -
The Mountain West is not known for its seafood. But that did not stop Utahns from trying — several times over seven decades — to cultivate oysters in… -
Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville. Today, it is the largest saline lake in the western hemisphere and keystone to the… -
In 1937, a man named Buzz Holmstrom built a wooden boat and ran the whitewater rapids of the entire Colorado River system completely solo. The following… -
If you’ve ever been to the Jordanelle Reservoir, you may not have realized the rich history lurking in the depths below you. Keetley, the town that… -
During the nineteenth-century, frozen water was a rare and valuable commodity. Year-round access to ice was an important business operation for railroad…
